The aim of Mindfulness - Stillness meditation is to learn to relax the body, calm the mind and to progress using mindfulness into the deeper stillness of meditation.

 Meditation flows naturally and easily if we let it flow.

• Water only flows from the tap if we open the tap.
• Bees can only feed on an open flower
• Birds fly because they spread their wings

  How does one meditate???

A. Directly, meaning one just sits in a deeply relaxed body with calm, still mind. Doing NOTHING. Other than…..just ”BE”

B. Indirectly, means learning through techniques and methods to calm body and mind to come to stillness. (It would be a fair judgment to say that our western mind has the need to ”learn” how to relax and let go.

One can do this through joining classes, read books or use tapes.

What can be helpful?

  1. Create Conducive Environment

Even so one can learn to meditate anywhere, at any time it can be helpful to prepare your environment to support you in not being disturbed and t hold you in a space of supporting self.

    2. Relax your body

Several relaxation methods can be used to help you let go of tension. Starting at the feet you can move your attention to body groups and visualize relaxing them one by one……….feel the muscles soften and relaxing..One by one…….

     3. Bring attention to Mindfulness

By using relaxation of your muscle groups you will notice that your mind is also starting to settle and you can than bring attention to the sounds around you…further away from you……..just notice them…….no need to judge them………name them…………nor let them distract you………….Let them pass just as you were to pass a stranger in the street……….you Might smile at people passing you…but you do not stop to engage with them………….nor do you need to engage with your thoughts………..just let them come and let them go………………

Just NOTICE….without getting distracted or having to react…………..this is mindfulness!

       4. Notice the stillness within

Stillness lies within all of us………Stillness is there at all times………Stillness is not something we ”create” …Stillness underlies all thought, all emotion and all reaction. By practicing mindfulness, one will notice that there is a silence…a feeling….which might have a ‘’special” quality and it might feel deeply comforting, peaceful and strangely enough…….it might seem very familiar.

And then we might notice that out of this stillness arises a sound, a thought, a feeling….and it settles back down again into ”Stillness” and as we stay aware of the movement, stay the ”Observer” without naming, we will remain in stillness.

As we progress in Meditation there will be no longer a distinction between the stillness and the movement……….we just let go…………..and rest within it.

..anywhere……….anytime……..however long you wish and choose !

Juanita Henry has taken on the task of bringing them to her community.

Blankets were on show and raised $142.

The community got involved in drawing on calico and in this way created a community blanket which will be sent to the Blue Hat Project to Melbourne.

Anyone who wants to make blankets, PLEASE do. Get your friends and family excited and join the cause.

Thank you Juanita for making this happen !!!  And thank you to all your helpers. It is people like YOU who make a difference, bringing ” light and joy ” to other people’s lives. (pictures on the right on top of each other are the girls who created the day)

When: Tuesday night 7:15 for 7:30pm sharp start

Where: Eco Centre www.ecocentre.com

Investment: $ 2 + what you can afford

What happens: We watch a DVD of Tolle teachings. Anyone who arrives early can sit in silence.

What you get: Tea from the garden’s herbs, the venue and an opportunity for you to connect.

Learn about birds, meditate, share breakfast and home made bread.

What can we learn from the birds ? … a great deal actually.

In order to see or hear birds and be present to what they are saying, one has to be present and mindful to how we move through our day.

Nature is all around us, we are part of it. We don’t need to go and see nature as we often say.

Blue Hat project in conjunction with the Eco Centre is eager to develope a platform for community and its spiritual and mental well being.By being also a resource centre for well being and not only for the Environment, a unique approach to sustainability of the world we live within is taken. 

Blue Hat project suggests that one wants to embrace,the following to leave behind a world worth living in. 

1. Community and  live  the CONNECTION, GENEROSITY,
2.  one SELFand develop GRATITUDE,WISDOM
3.  Nature and show OPTIMISM and COURAGE, 

All of those things have a direct relationship to all.

If one only fights for the environment and has not much time nor cares for the neighbour in the street it will have an impact.

If one only devotes all time with people and has no respect for what goes on within environment , the planet will suffer in the long run.

The message is all about compassion, empathy, connection and acceptance.

Blue Hat is a constant call for action. We all can make a difference and learn how to be conscious in how we move through life and how to bring mindfulness to all things we say and do.

Blue Hat is a call to connect to within oneself through creative expression

Blue Hat is a call to share what we have for the greater good of others.

The beginning of the Blog is at the very bottom.

The aim of this blog is to keep you in touch with the various activities around ”The Blue Hat project” which is under the auspice of the Eco Centre in St Kilda,Melbourne www.ecocentre.com

Together we can make a difference.

We all have a responsibility towards a sustainable future of the environment and our SELFE’s. ( Physically, psychologically and spiritually)

The Blue Hat projects advocates the use and care of nature and the environment we move within by practising mindful living with one self and others. It enthuses to connect people with each other through creative expression and inspires to look at nature being a constant councellor by providing the benefit of physical and psychological well being  to ourselves as we move within.

The Blue Hat project is passionate to ”help people learn to learn how to themselves”.

Let my ”LIGHT” be reflected in all what I see”

I invite you to blossom with me!!

Join me on my journey…and share with me as I share with you.